Roping Horses for Sale near Ellisville, MS

About Ellisville, MS

The city is named for Powhatan Ellis, a former U.S. senator for Mississippi who identified as a descendant of Pocahontas and her father, Chief Powhatan in Virginia. Ellisville was designated as the county seat, and it became the major commercial and population center of Jones County through the early decades of development in the nineteenth century. During the Civil War, Ellisville and Jones County were a center of pro- Union resistance. The county had mostly yeomen farmers and cattle herders, who were not slaveholders.